/ck/ - Food & Cooking

>poke holes to vent
>microwave for 2 minutes
>stir potatoes
>microwave for 90 seconds
>remove film
>microwave for 30 seconds
>stir corn and potatoes, replace film
>microwave for 1 minute
>flip rips, remove brownie
>microwave for 4 minutes
>replace brownie, stir potatoes
>microwave for 2 minues

>>8739365
I hate the ones that make you cook it, remove certain things, cook some more, and then replace those certain things

THE BEST

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>>8739365
For me, it would have to be:
>big compartment: fried chicken patty
>left small compartment: lettuce
>center small compartment: sesame seed bun
>right small compartment: mcchicken sauce

>>8739435
Beat me to it you cheeky cunt

>>8739435
clevuhguhl.png

I knew I saved these for a reason.

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>>8739435
This meme is about as fresh as the food it parodies

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>>8739545
Jesus, that looks rancid as fuck.

>>8739365
Claimjumper used to have the best ones, but I think they stopped making them... Sad...

Next best is Marie Callendar's

>>8739372
WALA

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>>8739538
beautiful aesthetic.

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>>8739570

absolutely disgusting

>>8739545
nooooo

Hungry Man Chicken and Waffles.

This discussion is now over.

>>8739372
I never thought these things involved so much fucking around. Compare it to >boil pasta >stir through premade sauce.

>>8739627
>This exists

the banquet pizza though

>>8739664
Even school cafeteria pizza looks better than this.

>>8739631
It's amazing, the hoops retards will go through trying to justify having to eat so poorly

1 container pasta dinners.
The only type that I have never found to be so bad as to be inedible.

>>8739664
That pizza:pudding ratio tho.
If it was scaled up to large pizza size it would be something I'd eat back in my binge drinking days.

>>8739631
Pasta is only ONE dish. OPs pic has FOUR. Try again flyover retard.

>>8739664
That's a pop tart with cheese

>main: tendies or nuggers
>side 1: macncheese
>side 2: peas

the only correct answer

>>8739696
You'd think of all the frozen meals they would have figured out how to rehydrate pasta in a sauce the best.

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>>8739555
do people actually eat this shit?
I can't imagine coming home every day and sticking this shit in the microwave because i don't have the time or skill to cook real food.
That's not a life worth living.

Is it bad that I want the chicken fingers with that stuffing on top of it?

>he doesnt like microwave dinners

whats it like being a fag

God tier

>>8739627
>side is potatoes
>dessert is cherries

You are right, that is the perfect TV dinner.

>>8740503
I became a bit depressed myself when reading this thread, if only with the realisation that these companies put this stuff out, which means that people must be buying it. If they're buying it, they're probably eating it.

I'd rather put a slice of cheese between a slice of bread than entertain the notion of eating some of these culinary aberrations.

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>>8740787
Banquet is below poverty-tier. That shit is like $1.
Marie Calendar and Hungry Man are WAY better made. They're still TV dinners but they're at least passable as lazy microwavable meals, and while eating them every day is sad as shit sometimes you just dont give a fuck and want something vaguely hot and tasty at the end of a long day.

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>>8739696

wtf I'm depressed now

>>8739696
trader joes has something similar, with pesto
it too is passable

usamerica, you have, once again, proven that your so called culture in terms of fast food has the most serious issues. And I am very sorry, that I am a friendly person who cannot think of a proper insult right now. Lucky for you they have worse food in asia or poor countries.

>>8739627
This was pretty decent best TV dinner I had to boot

>>8740804
Yeah, I'm not picky. I'll eat Marie Callender or Stouffer's or Michelina's once in a while but won't touch Banquet.

>>8739402
Curse of the brownie

>>8740503
I eat the banquet ones for lunch at work. It's usually just the tenders and mac n' cheese ones though.

Stouffer's ready-to-bake veggie lasagna, while not anywhere as good as an actual homemade lasagna, still makes for a half-decent meal when I don't want to cook. Turn oven on, wait a couple minutes, throw that thing in and get it back out when it starts getting bubbly.

>>8741062
My nigga. Stoeffers lasagna and Mac n cheese is alright.

Salisbury steak and turkey are the best generally if you have to eat any of these, anything chicken is horrifying

I will say that the Corkeys frozen BBQ dinners are actually not bad, but they are also a lot more expensive then the average frozen meal.

Granted, it has also been like 2 years since I had any frozen meals.

>>8739372
fuck that noise. It's going to taste like shit just slam it in the microwave for 4 mins and eat it

>>8739563
This is my absolute favorite tv dinner. Those crouton chunks are delicious.

Also these pictures should be of the cooked tv dinners, not frozen.

>>8741135
This. Stouffer's makes good stuff. Or at least those two are.

>>8743083
If this counts, the pizza is superior. Pretty damn good sauce, really.

>>8743100
If you really like the sauce buy a frozen tombstone pizza. On the box of Lunchables it says "tombstone pizza sauce"

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>>8739570
Why is that "mashed potato" whiter than snow?! Is it bleached for safety purposes? I wouldn't even feed a pig with those "meals"

For me

>>8741168
I agree, but its only because they are smothered in gravy!

>>8743333
I got quads. Neat.

Marie calendar is the hypest shit

>>8739552

Okay, can someone explain to me how they make this tomato sauce? The few times I've managed to stomach it, I remember the overbearing taste of metal

>>8743429
What you're tasting is iron, this is blood. Whose blood, we do not know

>>8743429
It's because of improperly seasoned meme pots.

>>8739696
Zatarain's pasta isn't actually that bad. Everything else is here is awful, though

This or GTFO.

>>8739365
Why not just buy a big ass steak? I mean, you can get a decent sized steak for 8 or 9 bucks, and any retard can cook a steak to their preferred doneness.

>>8744033

If you want a steak thread, start your own you fucking faggot.

banquet is absolute trash.
not even poor people should eat it.

you can get more calories from a $1 mcdouble and not have to put yourself through the hell of eating banquet.

also more calories from 3 tina's burritos which is about $1.20

no excuse to ever eat banquet.

You'd wet your knickers if any of these tv dinners were plated with a smear or drizzle, and a foam, you pretentious bastards.

>>8739365
Chicken-fried steak with pepper gravy in the main compartment.
Peas with mushroom slices in a garlic butter sauce as side 1.
Broccoli florettes or french cut greanbeans as side 2, can't decide.
Mac & Cheese as side 3.
Three pecan shortbread cookies, the kind with a little dollop of fudge in the center, in a packet taped to the film as dessert, not to be microwaved.

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>>8740774
man that brings me back. i was left alone a lot as a kid and i would eat these for dinner. pic related was probably my favorite, but it came with fries instead of mac an cheese.
i havent eaten one in maybe 15 years but i can still remember the taste

>posting banquet

there is a reason that shit is like 4 for a dollar all the time

I only really ever liked the boneless fried chicken hungry man. The brownie is shit though.

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>>8743206
>All the deliciousness of prison food, but from the comfort of your couch!

This thread reminds me why I lost faith in humanity.

>>8739696
That shit is fucking god-tier. Best frozen food I've ever eaten.

>>8739696
we have a winner. i also like the shrimp Alfredo i add extra shredded mozzarella on top of it

american frozen food is on a whole different level, I can find better food at 7-11 in my country

>>8744907
We have stuff like that here too, it's just usually near the deli, and not referred to as frozen food because it's just refridgerated.

>>8744907

We have 7-11 here in America too, dingus.

The only people who buy TV dinners are single parents for their children to feed themselves and literal manchildren who can't even begin to cook without the microwave.

>>8739555
What's that brown blob?

>>8739563
Had this.

Pure fucking nostalgia.

I'm moved to tears, not even kidding.

>>8744969
Spicy Ahi. Everytime, guarentee. Tho the new recipe sucks.

>>8739545
Please learn to cook. Stroganoff is easy to make, affordable, and you can have tons of portions from about 45 minutes of work.

>>8740785
Wait, is it actually cherries? Google Image shows it's that horrid cranberry apple bullshit.

>>8739696
These are genuinely not bad at all. When compared to typical frozen dinner shit, it's gourmet fine dining. Definitely one of the best brands

>>8739545
Fuck you and your shitty country

t. swede

>>8739372
Literally never have seen one that was that bad.
It's usually just vent or no vent, with possibly having to stir some shit once in a blue moon.

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>>8739570
I don't know why people subject themselves to Banquet when Stouffer's is right there. Also Marie Callender's.

>>8744907
When you guys get independence please take in our Hong Kong migrants

t. Canada

>>8746247
You're in no position to make this comment.

t. Swede

>>8745204
aptly called a "brownie"

>>8739696

this actually looks alright

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>>8739570

Are you The Wolfe Pit?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GKB2cwdp2mc

How to make frozen brownie batter for microwave?
I love this trash and would like to make a big batch so I could just scoop out a bit anytime I wanted one.

>>8740804
That shit ain't poverty tier. No microwaveble meals are, unless you have some source of income along with SNAP.

Imagine having an egg or two with vitamins in the morning, a tin of tuna by itself for lunch, and rice and beans every night . That's pretty decent for poverty.

t. Was and still a bit of a poorfag

>>8748840
That's not how frozen dinners work. Everything on the trays is cooked, it's just heated in the microwave.

If you want instant brownies, just buy/bake a bunch of brownies and freeze them individually.

>>8740774
Do you put the fruit snacks in the microwave?

>>8739372
>poke hole to vent
>cook for total time
>tastes like the same crappy microwave dinner but without the work

>>8739365
That's not the turkey one.

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>>8739563
>brownie is darker than a black hole
>potatoes are brighter than the sun

>>8744907
>gender labeling foods

Wow wtf you barbarians it's 2017

>>8744042

kek

chill out big boy

>>8746335

M´uricans and their bacon

>>8748939
Are you saying the brownie is already cooked? If so you are wrong.
Try thawing one out, it's more of a fudgy paste than a cakey brownie.

>>8749089
the
microwave
cooks
it

>>8749086
based america

>>8749132
Of course it does? I think you probably have shit reading comprehension so I will reiterate.

I want to make the uncooked fudgy paste mixture. Does anyone have an ingredient list?
I don't want good brownies, I want t.v. dinner tier trash.

so how much does a tv dinner cost on average?

>>8749238
The banquet/cheap one's are a dollar. Nicer one's like a hungry man or something are around $2.50 or so.

>>8749248
would totally get one, in my country they are ≥3€ which is far too expensive imo

>>8739416
Nighthawk was always pretty good the meat always had a nice char grilled taste I liked.

>>8739365
This was always my favorite TV Dinner Banquet use to make essentially the same thing but they discontinued it. Beef enchilada, cheese enchilada, Spanish rice, and refried beans.

Most of you aren't old enough to remember the joy of Banquet Boiling Bags. Best 29 cents ever spent.

As far as I can tell, we don't get 'TV Dinners' in the UK

We get ready meals, which are actually pretty good. Are these the same thing?

>>8739372
You might as well actually cook something if you're going to have to do stuff like that - I almost never eat them, but when I do I just microwave it for the total time, and then add more if it's still cold or let it sit a little if it's too hot.

>>8739372
>Microwaving for a total of 11 minutes
What he fuck, how weak are microwaves in America? I microwave something for 2 minutes and it's piping hot.

>>8749132
no shit the microwave cooks it. That is why they asked for how to make the batter. Then >>8748939
said they were already cooked after he asked >>8748840

Do you suck at reading or something?

>>8749459
They are blocks of ice. Standard microwaves are 1100 watts in US. It takes time to thaw it out and make it hot and to cook the brownie. Most dinners are something like "poke holes in this, microwave 3-4 minutes, stir this, microwave another minute" But the brownie shit messes everything up on most.

>>8739675
Not mine - I didn't eat pizza again until I was an adult and figured out it's not all like that. There was literally no cheese, it was the bright red ketchup-like sauce on an uncooked wonderbread "crust" and that was it - it was more like a ketchup and white bread sandwich than pizza, but they didn't even give you a second slice of bread like that would have.

>>8750035
>1100
>standard
Whoa, slow the fuck down there, rich boy. The microwaves that most American normies have are those cheap shit 700 watt ones from WalMart.
...
Right?

>>8750158

>>8750158
It's like $70-$100 for an 1100 watt from Walmart...Maybe if you buy a $45 on or something? I don't know.

https://www.walmart.com/search/?query=1100watt%20microwave&typeahead=1100%20watt

>>8749238
On average, they're about $2. But they can range from $1-$5

>>8750180
There's no real reason to have a high-power microwave though. Using that high power is just going to result in unpleasantly uneven heating. Better to use a lower power for longer.

I'll know I'm a failure in life if I ever eat anything posted in this thread

>>8749300
That cheese enchilada makes me want to puke. All cheese enchiladas do really regardless of quality.

>>8750387
I dunno man, I'm a 700 watt fag and I'm kinda jelly of my grandma's 1100 watt. Can reheat a whole pasta dish or leftover pizza in about 30 seconds. That kind of shit is amazing for a NEET that only cooks 3 days out of the week and does leftover shit the rest

>>8748900
>an egg or two with vitamins in the morning
Look at Rockefeller over here try hording food that was getting thrown away at your second job as your main food source then talk to me

>>8749343
Yes

>>8740503
I used to see this old obese lady microwaving a weight watchers tv dinner everyday for lunch. It was so depressing and enraging to me because it was like she was pretending to make an effort to lose weight without really trying.

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>>8739538
The camera white balance needs to be adjusted.

>>8749306
Sous vide
Wala

>>8746335
I tried Devour once. Absolute puke.

>>8739435
Got me

>>8750158
My Walmart doesn't sell any microwave below 1000 watts.
I should know. I replaced my broken 8 year old Microwave like 2 weeks ago.

>>8746335
The buffalo chicken mac and cheese with blue cheese from them is really really good. If you liked that one I recommend you try the buffalo next

>>8740503
i keep like 2 orange chicken and rice frozen meals for when i get drunk and dont want to cook. eating this shit daily would be torture tho

>>8751014
>can't wait an extra minute to eat leftovers.

jesus man.

>>8743178
It's still frozen, the pictures are from uncooked ones.

>>8744033
I have no idea how to cook one, and the last time I tried cooking meat (hamburgers) I accidentally set off the fire alarm and the oven seems too intimidating so I've been sticking with microwavable meat (and mostly just not having anything).

>>8739696
This is what spawned my love for blackened chicken alfredo. I make it from scratch every payday now. Easily my favorite food.

>>8749203
I see what you mean. Honestly the banquet brownies really remind me of those mug brownies. I think the microwave is what gives that brownie its specific texture.

>>8754050
Maybe.

I should probably just find out myself.
Flour, sugar, cocoa powder, and oil are cheap as shit; most baking is.

>>8754765
They strike me as more like cake than a brownie because of how airy they are, so there's probably baking powder or soda in it. They have a real rise to them. I'm gonna head to the grocery store, I might look at the back of a box for you.